Kenji Shiozawa

Biography

In 1940 Kenji Shiozawa was one of two students who received their Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from Utah State University. Following military service with the Intelligence Agency during World War II, he returned to USU at the invitation of Professor LaVal Morris to pursue a Master’s Degree, which he earned in 1949.

Kenji began his professional work with the U.S. Forest Service while simultaneously serving as a part-time faculty member of Utah State’s LAEP Department. His work for the Forest Service included planning and design activities for Flaming Gorge, Hell’s Canyon and the Sawtooth National Recreation Areas. Following his retirement from the Forest Service, he took consulting work with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Bureau of Land Management and the California State Parks and Recreation Department.

Kenji’s professional service associations were initiated in 1954 when he became a member of ASLA. He was later named President of the Rocky Mountain and the Utah Chapters, and he also served as Vice President of ASLA from 1974-75. In 1979 he was designation as a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.